Handwritten recipe book from the collections of the Royal College of Physicians. Written in English and Latin, by a scholar of some importance. Also remedies for wounds, accidents, scaldings, biting of a rabid dog, rickets, ulcers, perfumery, etc. On the vellum cover is written "Edmund Quarles, 1574" and on the first leaf "Francis Quarles" which may be in the hand of the poet. But the more likely possibilities are that of the family of a Cambridge scholar, another Francis. The entry for Francis Quarles (1591-1658) B.A., M.A., in the Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College (by John Venn), describes him as the son of Edmund Quarles, a citizen of Norwich. Francis became first the vicar of Reydon and in 1630 the rector of Newton, Suffolk, until his death. His will mentioned houses and lands in Stratford, Suffolk; members of his family, including his wife Elizabeth, several children and his brother William, a sword bearer of the city of Norwich. The entry also mentions that he came from the same family as the poet. Index References: Quarles (Francis), 1592-1644 Quarles (Edmund) Recipes.